The FAA has issued a response to the Part 13 complaint filed last August by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) against Monroe County, Florida, the operator of Key West International Airport. AOPA argued the airport is in violation of its FAA grant assurances as a result of the pricing and policies of the lone Signature Flight Support FBO there.
As it did in its earlier ruling in a similar AOPA complaint against North Carolina’s Asheville Regional Airport, the agency’s Southern Region Airports Division once again voided AOPA’s assertions that the FBO requires transient operators to pay for services the operator might not want or need as a condition of engaging in the aeronautical use of the facility. The division wrote, “The fact that Signature charges transient operators for services it provides at its leasehold is not unreasonable…AOPA fails to provide any data on the metrics that drive the rates and prices in a given market, and does not provide information to conduct a meaningful comparison.”
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